I am Ian Firth and I’m originally from England from Yorkshire in the north of England. I’m living in Athens Georgia where I’ve been for over thirty years. My current job – I’m retired, I’m a professor emeritus at the University of Georgia and I’ve been retired for seven years.

Hello, my name is Susan Buggy. I worked for Parks Canada for twenty-seven years and then I was ten years as an adjunct professor at the University of Montreal in landscape architecture. But now I am mostly retired, I just do really interesting projects and things I think are important. I’m based in [...]

The National Park Service explored the latest in digitization technologies for cultural heritage through the 3D Digital Documentation Summit held at the Presidio, San Francisco, July 10-12, 2012. The summit was jointly organized by NCPTT and the Intermountain Regional Office, and hosted by the More

If you have sat in the window seat, chances are you noticed that the airplane window was made of plastic. In fact, most aircraft include plastics in their design and have done so from the early years of human flight, yet the technological history of synthetic polymers in aviation is largely unexplored. This may [...]

With a 2011 Grant from NCPTT, conservators at Georgia O’Keeffe’s Residences in Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch, New Mexico undertook research comaparing digital photogrammetric methods for preservation documentation of historic homes. They documented their project as they went along at http://okeeffeimagingproject.wordpress.com/.